Don't ask the question if you don't want to hear the answer

When someone asks you a question are you supposed to tell the truth or say what they want to hear? Evidently Miss California made a stink we she told how she honestly felt about gay marriage when the question was posed to her on the Miss USA Pageant. She just told the truth of how she felt, and some feel she lost because of her answer. I could care less about the Pageant, but kudos to her for standing true to her faith. When did one group of people lose the right to say what they felt? Don't bother answering that...it was rhetorical.